Open Wounds

... Since wound there must be. Robert Browning You have to be really cautious now. Any moment can be the Turning of Time: a sudden shift, a twist in less than a second and you will lose your balance, and fall for days and nights, helplessly, past past events, which like lost souls stretch out their arms toward you. The past must be completed, if not in its own time, then in ours. It is a layer of skin you cannot shed the way the immortal snake sheds its discarded lives one after another. You are simply a mortal human, and must carry your pasts with you forever. Then another shift happens without warning, and you're falling again, past possible parallel futures: an infinite number of them flash before you, some perhaps derived from yesterday, or even earlier today, but most dragged up from LIMBO. They come to a restless rest in the open wound of this present moment we occupy. Make your choice, or one will be made for you. Do not fear this event you must resolve, for whatever choice you make will be benign and help to heal the open wounds of Time. We are creatures of a perpetual convalescence.